June 16, 2022
MONTPELIER, Vt.— The Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA), a union representing almost 6,000 state employees across Vermont, announced its endorsements today for the upcoming primary election.
“These are an outstanding group of committed, pro-state employee candidates whom we feel we can rely on to stand with us when the going gets tough,” said Aimee Bertrand Towne, VSEA’s president. VSEA’s member-driven endorsement process involves multiple stages of review of each candidate’s elective and legislative history, and of each candidate’s responses to a questionnaire crafted by VSEA members. This round of the union’s endorsements only considered candidates with contested primaries; all other candidates will be considered for endorsement during VSEA’s general election endorsement process later this year.
VSEA’s endorsed candidates in contested primary elections are as follows:
Statewide Candidates
U.S. Senate (Democratic Primary)
- Peter Welch
U.S. House (Democratic Primary)
- Molly Gray
Lieutenant Governor (Democratic Primary)
- David Zuckerman
Secretary of State (Democratic Primary)
- Chris Winters
Attorney General (Democratic Primary)
- Rory Thibault
Vermont Senate
Chittenden Central (Democratic Primary)
- Philip Baruth
- Tanya Vyhovsky
Chittenden Southeast (Democratic Primary)
- Thomas Chittenden
- Kesha Ram Hinsdale
- Virginia “Ginny” Lyons
Washington (Democratic Primary)
- Andrew Perchlik
- Anne Watson
Windham (Democratic Primary)
- Wichie Artu
- Nader Hashim
Vermont House of Representatives
Chittenden-4 (Democratic Primary)
- Christina Deeley
Chittenden-5 (Democratic Primary)
- Mike Yantachka
Orange-2 (Democratic Primary)
- Lance Mills
Washington-4 (Democratic Primary)
- Conor Casey
- Kate McCann
Washington-5 (Democratic Primary)
- Zachary Sullivan
Windsor-1 (Democratic Primary)
- Paul Belaski
- Elizabeth Burrows
Windsor-6 (Democratic Primary)
- Kevin “Coach” Christie
Windsor-Orange-2 (Democratic Primary)
- Jim Masland
State’s Attorney
Addison County (Democratic Primary)
- Tim Lueders-Dumont
Washington County (Democratic Primary)
- Bridget Grace